Even in the darkness of the closed box she felt trapped inside, she could see light shining in through tiny holes on the lid. They were like the stars beckoning her towards a place where all would be simple .. . away from the shadows, away from the darkness.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Graham Greene
The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say.
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Frederick Weisel
I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.
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Darnell Lamont Walker
Truth will keep on telling the truth Lies will lie to be more uncouth No more rainbow after the storm Nowhere to escape leaving the norm
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Munia Khan
There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving,...
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Kristin Kimball
Some want to be owned, and some want to be saved. Only some want to exist in the glow of contentment.
It all fell away then — the control, the independence .. . everything. She had known it would never be easy to findsolitude .. . to find herself. Not in this city, where appearances were everything; where emptiness filled luxurious landscapes till there was nothing...
But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera stopped clicking.
Even in the darkness of the closed box she felt trapped inside, she could see light shining in through tiny holes on the lid. They were like the stars beckoning her towards a place where all would be simple .. . away from the shadows,...
